Reverend Peyton Plays, Shoots Shotgun Guitar

Trending News: This Guy Built A Fully Functional Guitar That's Also A Shotgun

Quick Take

Have you ever wished your guitar was a gun or your gun was a guitar? No? Well, someone has gone ahead and made a crossover of the two anyway.

Reverend Peyton of the excellently-named Indiana band Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band has posted a video on YouTube of him playing his crazy invention the three-string Guitgun — a cross between a guitar and a 12-gauge shotgun, which can function as either.

The 40-second clip shows a heavily-bearded, flannel-shirt wearing Peyton rocking out on his Guitgun and showing some impressive fret work before taking aim at a target and firing at it.

Rev. Peyton has some previous experience when it comes to viral music videos and won scores of admirers last year when he performed bluegrass song John Henry on a staggering 18 different instruments, including the revolutionary tin of ham guitar.

On stage the Rev. regularly uses some pretty niche instruments too like a 1930 steel body guitar and a 1934 National Trojan Resonator guitar — a type of acoustic guitar which was once believed to carry sound further than a standard acoustic but never really took off.

Now, it may be pretty hard to imagine a time when having a guitar that functions as a gun would come in handy, but the Guitgun could come into its own when you’re playing a gig to a tough crowd or trying to lighten the mood while robbing a bank…

Drop This Fact

The Escopetarra — a guitar made from a modified gun — was first invented by Colombian peace activist Cesar Lopez in 2003 to raise awareness of gun violence.